The Blizzard product slate has been leaked and we now know the anticipated release dates for the Starcraft expansions. Starcraft 2 Zerg expansion is due out Q4 2011 and Starcraft 2 Protoss expansion is due out Q1 2013. Additionally the SC2 Phoenix game will be launched in Q4 2011.

At BlizzCon 2010 there was a show match between the coolest two players in the world of Starcraft 2, SlayerS_’Boxer’ and FruitDealer (aka Cool). It was quite difficult to find the cast, but here is the cast from the 2 games they played. Enjoy!

GOM TV is currently streaming the Sony Ericsson STARCRAFT 2 Open Season(GSL Pre-season) 2! This is the 2nd pre-season open tournament of GSL 2010 and also the 2nd step to determine qualifiers of GSL 2011.

Here is a quick tutorial on how to create your own Starcraft 2 multiplayer map. You can’t access the editor from within the game. It’s included as a separate file, so instead of opening StarCraft II, start by opening the main SC II folder (most likely this will be C:\Program Files\Starcraft), and click on StarCraft II Editor. NOTE: You’ll need to log into Battlenet the first time you do this.

Blizzard has responded to the single player banning story that’s been making the rounds for the past few days. Reports stated that the 5000+ players banned by Blizzard earlier this month included those that used cheats or trainers during the single player game.

I just wanted to quickly run through my favourite Starcraft 2 channels on YouTube. These channels are by far the best on YouTube, so make sure you subscribe to all of them! They provide some great games, great tutorials and more.

Here at WireNinja we thought that Starcraft 2 was growing so fast that we had to create a custom channel for the game. On the Starcraft 2 channel we are planning on posting the best games from around the world, news, commentary, stategy guides and more.